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My dear friends Angie and Joe have a grandson named Corbin, who is nine
years old. A little more than a year ago when Grandpa Joe was taking Corbin
and his brother to school, Corbin had a seizure.
They rushed him to the ER. A cat scan was made which
revealed an unknown mass in his head. They were referred to a neurosurgeon.
Many tests later the diagnosis was an inoperable aneurysm, perhaps a birth
defect. The doctor advised Corbin's family they could not do radiation on
his head. The treatment recommended was to bore several holes in the skull
in order to insert minute particles of radium. This procedure had worked
well on other children. The radium would shrink the aneurysm. This was the
good news.
The bad news was that it would take three or four trips
spaced six months apart to keep the aneurysm shrunk.
Angie and her family are devout Catholics. The Priest
gave Angie a bottle of Holy Water. She took it and placed some on Corbin's
head every day. Corbin and parents live across the street from Angie, so
she could see him each day to use the Holy Water. Then the family would have
prayer before bedtime. Corbin never wavered in his faith that he would be
healed. He would remind his Grandmother nightly to put the Holy Water on his
head, as he slept better.
He was not allowed to run or play with his brother or
the other kids. He became a pretty
lonely boy, but he always believed his sickness was only temporary. He would
say, "When I get well, I will play soccer and sports of all kinds, just wait
and see."
A few months passed and it was time for Corbin to have
another cat scan. The doctor studied the scan and set up another treatment
for a few months later.
Last week he had yet another scan in preparation for
the implants. The doctor sat down with the family. He told them the
aneurysm had disappeared! There was no evidence it had ever been there. The
doctor stated that in all his years of practice, this had never happened to
a patient before. He was simply amazed, and told them no one had ever been
cured with one treatment. Was it the Radium, or faith and prayer? You be the
judge. |
